Non­fic­tion

Yoni’s Last Bat­tle: The Res­cue at Entebbe, 1976

  • From the Publisher
May 13, 2013

Yoni’s Last Bat­tle is a grip­ping account of the famous oper­a­tion in Entebbe, Ugan­da in July 4, 1976. While Amer­i­ca cel­e­brat­ed it’s 200th anniver­sary of inde­pen­dence, thir­ty of Israel’s elite com­man­dos flew 2,000 miles to Entebbe, Ugan­da, under the cov­er of dark­ness, in a des­per­ate attempt to res­cue 105 Jew­ish and Israeli pas­sen­gers hijacked by ter­ror­ists on an Air France flight. Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, a coura­geous and cel­e­brat­ed sol­dier, led the dar­ing oper­a­tion. Vir­tu­al­ly the entire group of hostages was lib­er­at­ed and returned safe­ly to Israel, but Yoni was killed in the oper­a­tion that was described by the New York Times as hav­ing no prece­dent in mil­i­tary his­to­ry.” Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, Yoni’s youngest broth­er, and also broth­er to for­mer Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu recon­structs events to por­tray a minute-to-minute chron­i­cle of one of the ear­li­est and most spec­tac­u­lar vic­to­ries in the mod­ern war against ter­ror­ism. Based on inter­views with almost every mem­ber of the oper­a­tion, this is a fas­ci­nat­ing, first-hand account of the intense 48-hour peri­od of plan­ning, prepa­ra­tion and near-per­fect exe­cu­tion in extreme­ly dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances. Yoni’s Last Bat­tle is also an intrigu­ing por­tray­al of Yoni, who at the age of 30 was a bril­liant and hero­ic commander.

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